PANELISTS:

Asghar Farhadi

Writer/Director/
Producer

MODERATOR: Dade Hayes

"When they see [the movie], they are facing a common man who doesn't have that much of a heroic side to him. There is a paradox in this title." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Nicole Kidman

Actor

Aaron Sorkin

Writer/Director

J.K. Simmons

Actor

Javier Bardem

Actor

Nina Arianda

Actor

MODERATOR: Anthony D'Alessandro

"There were these wonderful points of friction...they didn't happen in the same week, but I made them happen in the same week for the sake of our film." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Siân Heder

Writer/Director

Diane Lederman

Production Designer

MODERATOR: Ryan Fleming

“[ASL is] the most cinematic language out there. So when writers talk about the experience of watching their words come to life, this was the most literal version of that." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Haley Bennett

Actor

Joe Wright

Director

Kelvin Harrison Jr.

Actor

MODERATOR: Anthony D'Alessandro

"After four or five months of having been starved of human connection ... here was a movie about the importance of human connection, and our often failure to connect." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Nicholas Britell

Composer

Adam McKay

Writer/Director/
Producer

Hank Corwin

Editor

MODERATOR: Joe Utichi

"It’s almost like an old Marx Brothers movie or Three Stooges, where clearly there are mice loose at the opera premiere, but they’ve got to cover it up." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Jonas Poher Rasmussen

Co-Writer/Director

MODERATOR: Jill Goldsmith

"Most of his life, he’s kept this big secret and kept people at a distance because he was afraid of being exposed." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Olga Merediz

Actor

MODERATOR: Jill Goldsmith

"I had to remember what I did on Broadway and Off Broadway, with the difference that in 10 years, we all as human beings grow every year." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Aunjanue Ellis

Actor

MODERATOR: Joe Utichi

"I think I kind of clicked into something in the way that I describe it: Mr. Richard was the architect of this dream, but Ms. Oracene was the builder of the dream." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Michael G. Wilson

Producer

Barbara Broccoli

Producer

Mark Tildesley

Production Designer

Chris Corbould

Special Effects Supervisor

MODERATOR: Dade Hayes

"We’ll figure that one out, but he will be back. You can rest assured James Bond will be back." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Ruth Negga

EP/Actor

Rebecca Hall

Writer/Director/
Producer

Tessa Thompson

EP/Actor

André Holland

Actor

MODERATOR: Dominic Patten

"A lot of acting is actually just being open to receive and listening and what happens in that space between." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Tracey Scott Wilson

Writer

Liesl Tommy

Director/EP

Ina Mayhew

Production Designer

Kramer Morgenthau

Cinematographer

MODERATOR: Dominic Patten

"I wanted this film to feel like a great big lush classical Hollywood film. ... It was my gift honestly to Black women who loved movies and never saw themselves in classic Hollywood movies." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Pablo Larraín

Director/Producer

Steven Knight

Writer/EP

MODERATOR: Jill Goldsmith

"And any writer will know that true stories are always more bizarre and strange and baffling than anything that you can make up." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Tom McCarthy

Co-Writer/ Director/Producer

Matt Damon

Actor

MODERATOR: Mike Fleming Jr.

"I think this movie sort of subverts, in many ways, what we expect from an American hero abroad, both in terms of cinematic history, so to speak, and storytelling." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Benjamin Cleary

Writer/Director

Mahershala Ali

Producer/Actor

MODERATOR: Valerie Complex

"The film is always about the human story at the heart of it... We never wanted it to look like the inside of a spaceship or anything." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Oscar Isaac

Actor

MODERATOR: Dominic Patten

"Paul has always been ferociously an outsider: He's subversive, he's punk rock in that way – he complains about it, but he stays true to that thing." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Filippo Scotti

Actor

Paolo Sorrentino

Writer/Director/
Producer

Daria D'Antonio

Cinematographer

MODERATOR: Anthony D'Alessandro

"When I wrote the movie, I took care of my life, but when I went to shoot, I decided to treat this script like a movie, not like my life." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Richard Jenkins

Actor

Stephen Karam

Writer/Director/
Producer

Jayne Houdyshell

Actor

Amy Schumer

Actor

MODERATOR: Dade Hayes

"It's hard to separate the love from the pain with those people who know you the best." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Dakota Johnson

Actor

Maggie Gyllenhaal

Writer/Director/
Producer

Affonso Gonçalves

Editor

Peter Sarsgaard

Actor

MODERATOR: Joe Utichi

"There's something inherently dramatic about telling the truth in general." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Alessandro Nivola

Actor

David Chase

Co-Writer/Producer

Ray Liotta

Actor

MODERATOR: Mike Fleming Jr.

"In his case, I would say, I’m being Freudian about him, a lot of it has to do with his father." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Tanya Seghatchian

Producer

Jane Campion

Writer/Director/
Producer

Ari Wegner

Cinematographer

MODERATOR: Anthony D'Alessandro

"I think that's part of the charm of Jane Campion: If you're with her you will fall under her spell immediately and you can't see the world the same way after that." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Lily Rabe

Actor

Tye Sheridan

Actor

MODERATOR: Ryan Fleming

"I come from a small-town, blue-collar background, you know, a bit of a crazy family myself just as J.R. has." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Alex Lemke

VFX Supervisor

Carter Burwell

Composer

Michael Huber

VFX Supervisor

MODERATOR: Ryan Fleming

"Joel had written right into the script this sense of rhythm, of beats that he achieves by drips of water or blood or even hallucinations on the part of Lady Macbeth..." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Jeremy O. Harris

Co-Writer

Janicza Bravo

Co-Writer/Director

MODERATOR: Valerie Complex

"Those tweets that could have fallen by the wayside are the best of the 2000s. We have to treat this like it's Emily Dickinson." Read Story Here